Two Hours of Exploding Garbage!

Rating: 1/10 (15 July 2013)

I expected better of Guillermo del Toro. Dinosaurs emerging from an a-hole in the center of the earth from another dimension or whatever. The basic message is one of desperate collectivism in the face of almost certain global annihilation. To distract adolescent viewers and sugar coat such a malevolent totalitarian pill, they throw magnificently exploding garbage at their 3-D audience numbed into the desirable zombie-like trance, and shell-shocked into submission.
It's enough to make me miss the blatant fairy-tale (but at least anti-fascist) mysticism of Pan's Labyrinth -which nonetheless revealed the same basic motivations at work in the commie resistance fighters. At least I won't be wasting any more time on this director. He truly has said whatever he may have had to say and is now reduced to repeating himself, however inarticulately. Also, too predictable and empty a story for a spoiler alert. If you've seen any disaster film ever, you will see nothing new with this one.